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Tuesday 14/August/2018 14:37 PM

Equality for all?

Last month, I was invited to speak at the York Festival of Ideas, an annual forum for debating alternative, predominantly progressive policy goals. I talked...

Tuesday 14/August/2018 14:34 PM

The Trump administration’s dead end on trade

There is every reason to believe that the United States’ trade dispute with China will get worse before it gets better, and that the US trade deficit will...

Monday 13/August/2018 14:20 PM

Prevention is the best migration cure

With newspapers full of stories about the challenges migrant families face, it might be tempting to assume that the causes of displacement are also being...

Monday 13/August/2018 14:20 PM

Trump’s victorious retreats

Will Donald Trump back down in his trade war with China, or will he win it? The answer is probably both. Trump’s characteristic sequence of blood-curdling...

Monday 13/August/2018 14:15 PM

No to academic normalization of Trump

The University of Virginia recently faced a storm of protest after its Miller Centre of Public Affairs appointed President Donald Trump’s former Director...

Sunday 12/August/2018 22:06 PM

Germany’s dangerous nuclear flirtation

As in a game of chess, there are geopolitical moves through which a country can – unwittingly – checkmate itself. Opening a debate on German nuclear...